FORMER Colchester United captain Tommy Smith is celebrating after winning the first club trophy of his career. The ex-U’s defender has helped Auckland FC win the Australian A-League Premier Plate, in ...

Jess Phillips has suggested she is open to co-operating with Rupert Lowe’s private inquiry into grooming gangs. The Home Office minister said she was “more than happy” to meet the Independent MP to ...

Judd Trump held off a spirited fightback from Shaun Murphy to reach the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible. Trump began the final session of the second-round clash of ...

Hard work and belief has paid off for Simon Murray as the Dundee forward welcomed his “special” nomination for the PFA ...

A crash is causing chaos during rush hour, as one of Colchester’s main roads has been partially blocked. The incident was reported on the A133 Colne Bank Avenue at A134 Westway, and is affecting ...

Colchester Zoo are on the hunt for a new driver of their Lost Madagascar Road Train, with the application closing in May.

The barracks have been in a derelict state for years and they will be made into 70 homes across a three-year project.

An Essex vineyard has been crowned among the best in the East of England in a national awards ceremony dubbed the “Rural Oscars”.

The court heard how Smith was stopped by police officers in Colchester last April when he was driving a Ford Fiesta.

A PUB has received Tendring CAMRA's Pub of the Year award for 2025. CAMRA members and regulars at the New Bell Inn in Harwich gathered in the pub to celebrate the win.

Belfast rap trio Kneecap are a “hate fest” that “promote division”, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said. The Belfast East MP said that the promoter of a Kneecap gig in Belfast in August has questions ...

A SERVING Essex police officer tried to trick a string of schoolgirls into sending naked pictures of themselves by masquerading as a teenage girl trying to help them see if their boyfriend was ...